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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by internetter on Friday May 30, 2025 @02:13PM (#44138671)
I like the citizen science idea, the bitcoin one is so shitty. There was an epedemic of websites covertly mining in browsers a while back and this is a dangerous road to go down.
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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by woah on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:03PM (#44139029)
The entire purpose of this library is to covertly mine in browsers
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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by tiagorangel on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:30PM (#44139238)
no, it's not mining crypto.
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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by internetter on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:07PM (#44139056)
Only for the protection of the service. With a financial incentive all of the sudden it’s deployed unnecessarily to every static site in existence, just like ads all those years ago. And the enshittificstion continues.
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